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Ahh FuckedCompany.com I remember when I sat in an interview for a position at marchFIRST in Melbourne, Australia. And when it came time in the interview for th

by malbs 10y ago

Ahh FuckedCompany.com I remember when I sat in an interview for a position at marchFIRST in Melbourne, Australia. And when it came time in the interview for them to ask "Have you got any questions for us?" "Yeah, look this is kind of awkward, but I've seen marchFIRST mentioned quite a number of times on this website called fuckedcompany.com... Is that indicative of any issues I should be aware about?" "Oh, don't worry about that, thats just our american parent company" "Oh great" So I accepted the offer, worked off-site for 3 months, and then marchFIRST went chapter 11. Should have paid more attention to that damned website.

0xmohit 10y ago
marchFIRST -- it even has a Wikipedia entry [0]! marchFIRST was a Nasdaq traded public company whose peak stock price reached $52. By the time the company filed for bankruptcy, it traded for pennies ($0.16 on March 28, 2001). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarchFirst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarchFirst
nwenzel 10y ago
I worked at marchFirst back in the day. Even had the chance to meet Bob Bernard. That experience shaped how I run the company I co-founded 3 years ago. M1's number one problem was a culture of spending money without any thought of a return. Which was probably really odd for folks on the Whitman Hart side of the merger. It really was a merger of two opposite cultures.
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- feverishaaron 10y ago
  This extended back to USWeb/CKS. I might still have a shirt bragging about a $300M quarter (Though if you looked at the financials,we had something like a $50M loss). It was like the Tres Comma club, but tackier.
bbcbasic 10y ago
> "Oh, don't worry about that, thats just our american parent company" Translation: "don't worry about that, that's just the company you are applying for"
- malbs 10y ago
  I was young and really wanted the job! It was easy to overlook the obvious
  - bbcbasic 10y ago
    I'm making fun of their gall more than anything else. I'd probably have overlooked that too when I was young.
  - willismichael 10y ago
    It's possible that you made the right decision - you were young, you got the job, you got experience on your resume.

by malbs 10y ago

0xmohit 10y ago

marchFIRST -- it even has a Wikipedia entry [0]! marchFIRST was a Nasdaq traded public company whose peak stock price reached $52. By the time the company filed for bankruptcy, it traded for pennies ($0.16 on March 28, 2001). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarchFirst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarchFirst

nwenzel 10y ago

I worked at marchFirst back in the day. Even had the chance to meet Bob Bernard. That experience shaped how I run the company I co-founded 3 years ago. M1's number one problem was a culture of spending money without any thought of a return. Which was probably really odd for folks on the Whitman Hart side of the merger. It really was a merger of two opposite cultures.

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feverishaaron 10y ago
This extended back to USWeb/CKS. I might still have a shirt bragging about a $300M quarter (Though if you looked at the financials,we had something like a $50M loss). It was like the Tres Comma club, but tackier.

bbcbasic 10y ago

> "Oh, don't worry about that, thats just our american parent company" Translation: "don't worry about that, that's just the company you are applying for"

malbs 10y ago
I was young and really wanted the job! It was easy to overlook the obvious
- bbcbasic 10y ago
  I'm making fun of their gall more than anything else. I'd probably have overlooked that too when I was young.
- willismichael 10y ago
  It's possible that you made the right decision - you were young, you got the job, you got experience on your resume.